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Divided Commission Voids $30 Parking Ticket

By Valentina Fuentes Jimenez | August 4, 2026

The Summer Internship Program is sponsored by Karp Associates. A North Stamford mother of two who said she did not realize the section of the Playhouse Lot where she parked required payment had her $30 ticket voided by the New Canaan Parking Commission on a divided vote at its most recent meeting. 

Valerie Storr, told commissioners July 8 that she had just come from a pediatrician’s appointment with her young children and was trying out the New Canaan office for the first time. She received a ticket on June 16 at 2:37 p.m. in the Playhouse Lot. In a written appeal, Storr said she had not noticed the upper and lower portions of the lot were different. “I’m very sorry.

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Town Voids $60 Elm Street Parking Ticket Issued to Woman Who Hadn’t Been to New Canaan Since Meters Installed

By Valentina Fuentes Jimenez | July 27, 2026

The Summer Internship Program is sponsored by Karp Associates. A Stamford woman who said she had not visited downtown New Canaan since the town installed parking meters had her $60 ticket voided unanimously by the Parking Commission at its most recent meeting, after raising a pointed question about the visibility of the signs on Elm Street. Catherine Galvin received a ticket at 2:49 p.m. on March 30 on Elm Street. The base ticket amount of $30 had since escalated to $60 due to nonpayment. In a written appeal submitted to the Commission prior to its July 8 meeting, she said she had come to town to shop and walked directly into the store in front of her without noticing any signage.

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Divided Commission Voids $30 Elm Street Parking Ticket for Norwalk Woman Who Was Unaware of Paid Parking Change

By Valentina Fuentes Jimenez | July 20, 2026

A Norwalk woman who said she was unaware that parking on Elm Street had changed from free to paid had her ticket voided by the New Canaan Parking Commission on a divided vote. Vienna Bandur received a $30 ticket at 10:05 a.m. on June 16 on Elm Street, issued in the Elm/South Street zone. In a written appeal submitted to the Parking Bureau, Bandur said she’d come to town to meet a friend for coffee and was parked for approximately 30 to 40 minutes. “I do not live in New Canaan and was unaware that the parking on Elm Street had recently transitioned from free parking to metered parking,” Bandur said in her appeal. “There were no physical meters at the space where I parked or markings on the parking spot itself, and there was no signage indicating payment was required immediately in front of or near the spot, although, in hindsight, I did see that there were signs farther down the street, which I unfortunately overlooked.”

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Town Voids $35 Parking Ticket Issued to Local Woman

By Michael Dinan | May 13, 2026

Town officials last week voided a $35 ticket issued to a local woman who’d pulled into one of the permitted spots in the Park Street Lot thinking it was free. During a May 6 appeal hearing before the Parking Commission, Lilly Kong said that she understood the entire Park Street Lot to be free. 

“It’s a very consistent message saying ‘park in the Park Street Lot, it’s three hours free’ and I have that imprinted in my mind, so the day I parked there I just saw the sign,” Kong told the Commission during the hearing, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. However, the row of spaces along the northern edge of the lot are for permit-holders only — a fact that had been spelled out on signs in the lot, but not specified on a prior version of the town’s “parking map” posted online. Kong said that after she got the ticket, she went to parking officials and noted that the map didn’t account for the permitted spaces in the Park Street Lot. 

That town parking map has since been updated. Commission Chair Nancy Bemis, Secretary Kevin Karl and members Katie O’Neill and Marley Thackray voted 4-0 to void the ticket.